And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.
K. Edw. Take that, the likeness of this railer here.Stabs him.
Rich. Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony.Rich. stabs him.
Clar. And there's for twitting me with perjury.40
Queen. O, kill me too!
Rich. Marry, and shall.Offers to kill her.
K. Edw. Hold, Richard, hold! for we have done too much.
Rich. Why should she live, to fill the world with words?44
K. Edw. What! doth she swoon? use means for her recovery.
Rich. Clarence, excuse me to the king, my brother;
I'll hence to London on a serious matter:
Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.48
Clar. What? what?
Rich. Tower! the Tower!Exit.
Queen. O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!
Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murtherers!52
They that stabb'd Cæsar shed no blood at all,
Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
If this foul deed were by, to equal it:
He was a man; this, in respect, a child;56
And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.
What's worse than murtherer, that I may name it?
No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak:
And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.60
Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!
39 Sprawl'st: twitchest in death-agony
42 Marry . . . shall: I will, forsooth
48 be sure: expect
55 equal: compare with
56 in respect: compared with him
